Description of the painting by Jacques Louis David “Love of Paris and Helen”

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1. Description of the painting by Jacques Louis David “Portrait of Napoleon in his office”The picture was painted in 1812 in oil on canvas. David is a brilliant artist of the 19th century. His portraits are known all over the world and stand in the same row with the greatest artists. The portrait of Napoleon was painted by David when the period of classicism dominated in painting. It is […]...
2. Description of the painting by Jacques Louis David “Death of Marat”One of the masterpieces of world painting today is the painting The Death of Marat (1793), painted by the famous French painter Jacques Louis David. Marat was a very good friend of the artist and one of the toughest and fanatical leaders of the bloody revolutionary events in France. He was killed by the decisive […]...
3. Description of the painting by Jacques-Louis David “Napoleon on the Saint-Bernard Pass”David – the founder of French neo-classicism, artistically rethought the standards of classicism and updated them in accordance with the era. Ardent revolutionary, a supporter of the French Revolution, loyal to Napoleon and who believed that he is able to give the world what he needs. “Napoleon on the Saint-Bernard Pass” – the picture is […]...
4. Description of the painting by Jacques-Louis David “Madame Recamier”Madame Julie Recamier, the owner of a fashionable salon in Paris and a famous beauty, commissioned her portrait to renowned artist Jean Louis David. The artist in the process of writing a portrait, could not get used to the meager lighting in the room, because of which he did not go to work. Madame Julie […]...
5. Description of the painting by Jacques-Louis David “Self-portrait” (1794)This picture shows us the character and appearance of Jacques-Louis David, how the artist himself felt. He wanted the audience to recognize in him a man of strong-willed, restrained, passionate and inclined to spiritual impulse. One need only look at the artist’s self-portrait in order to understand the reasons why he joined the revolutionaries and […]...
6. Description of the painting by Jacques Louis David “Sappho and Phaon”The work of the talented French artist Jacques Louis David is done with oil on a sufficiently large canvas. David is considered the founder of neoclassicism, based on the works of the ancient heritage. The work “Sappho and Phaon” was made in terms of the artist’s late work. It bears the beloved Sappho and Phaon, […]...
7. Description of the painting by Jacques Louis David “Belisarius”Filled with tragedy, sadness and human injustice, the painting by famous French classical painter “Belisarius”, Jacques Louis David, was painted in oil in 1781. The plot of the picture is imbued with sadness, sentimentality and compassion. She tells of a Byzantine illustrious commander Belisarius, who was slandered and removed from service, condemning wanderings and poverty. […]...
8. Description of the painting by Jacques Louis David “Antiochus and Stratonika”David is a French artist, a representative of neoclassicism – revolutionary classicism, which does not reject the old canons, but reinterprets them in its own way. Neoclassicists believed that the artist should not just be an observer and his main purpose is not to simply capture the surrounding reality. They believed that the artist’s mission […]...
9. Description of the painting by Jean-Louis David “The Oath of the Horatii”“The Oath of the Horatii” – a large painting, written by French artist Jean-Louis David in 1784. The painting is currently in the Paris Louvre. As soon as the picture came out from under the master’s brush, it immediately gained a great success, both among the public and among critics. The painting “The Oath of […]...
10. Description of the painting by Jacques Louis David “The Coronation of Napoleon and Empress Josephine”The artist worked on the painting for about two years and created a huge canvas. The painter depicted about 150 characters. Each image is realistic and accurate, the master wrote all the characters from real people. The artist has long wanted to create a canvas using the theme of the coronation and, after the implementation […]...
11. Description of the painting by Tintoretto “Abduction of Helen”Jacopo Tintoretto’s painting The Abduction of Helena illustrates the ancient Greek myth about the abduction of beautiful Helen. Tintoretto worked in the late Renaissance, so the myths of ancient times were incredibly in demand and enjoyed great popularity. However, the master decided to transfer those significant events occurring many centuries ago, in his real world. […]...
12. Description of the painting by Marc Chagall “David and Bathsheba”Marc (Movsha) Chagall was born in Vitebsk, into a Jewish family, received a traditional home education. The main element of his paintings has always been Jewish folk culture. Often the artist visualized proverbs in Yiddish, turned to biblical stories. The vocation of the creator for him was inextricably linked with national self-awareness. In the thirties […]...
13. Description of the sculpture by Michelangelo Buanarroti “David”“David” is a marble sculpture by Michelangelo. This marble statue, whose height is over five meters, is the top of the Renaissance sculpture. The original of this statue is currently in Florence, at the Academy of Fine Arts. By the way, she is there to prevent damage. The statue is a naked figure of David. […]...
14. Description of the painting by Michelangelo “David and Goliath”Entering the Sistine Chapel, looking up and to the left, the viewer will see part of the detail of the fresco “David and Goliath”. The main character was a famous person in the history of the Jews, a famous person in art. Lived in 10 Art. BC, served as offering arms to the king Saul. […]...
15. Description of the sculpture by Giovanni Bernini “David”As they say in an ancient legend written in the Bible, a young and courageous young man, David, with a stone that he released from a sling, killed the formidable giant Goliath. And during the times of the Renaissance, many artists and sculptors took this story as the basis of their creation. The image of […]...
16. Description of the painting by Rembrandt Harmens Van Rijn “The Farewell of David to Jonathan”The great Dutch painter Rembrandt Harmens van Rijn was a great master of the image of human emotions and experiences. The genre’s works of the master are very diverse, but on whatever topic he wrote, the depths of human passions were always paramount for him. One of Rembrandt’s teachers was Peter Lastman – and he […]...
17. Description of the painting by Rembrandt Harmens van Rijn “Saul and David”Of particular value in the cultural and historical heritage are the works of artists on rare themes and subjects. One of these scenes is the image of the characters from the Bible of Saul and David. The Dutch painter Rembrandt made as many as two canvases with these heroes: the first in 1630, the next […]...
18. Description of the painting by Vechelio Titian “Heavenly Love and Earthly Love”The great artist Titian was once ordered a painting, which he didn’t even mention, because he didn’t know what one of the greatest masterpieces of artistic art creates. The picture was painted in 1514, on the occasion of the wedding of a rich Venetian, who apparently ordered a beautiful canvas as a gift to his […]...
19. Description of the painting by Rembrandt “David and Jonathan”Dutch by birth, Rembrandt, undoubtedly, is one of the greatest artists of all times and peoples who have made an invaluable contribution to world painting. Of course, first of all, the talent of the artist played its role in this, in many respects, this was facilitated by the fact that before writing each of his […]...
20. Description of the statue of Donatello “David”“David” is one of the great sculptures that embodies so many meanings and questions that worried people in the 15th century. This is a statue that was the beginning of the revival of the cult of the body. Not clarified is the question of the time the creation of this masterpiece. Most art critics date […]...
21. Description of the painting by Caravaggio “David and Goliath (1601)”This painting was commissioned by the artist Cardinal Scipione Borghese. David and Goliath, relying on biblical information, were heroes of antiquity. David was to be king of the Jews, and Goliath was a gigantic Philistine. In one of the biblical legends tells of the confrontation of these two characters. Goth was the native city of […]...
22. Description of the painting by Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn “David and Uriah”Rembrandt Harmens van Rijn is a Dutch artist whose paintings are distinguished by the versatility of selected subjects and the techniques used. Of particular interest to the artist were biblical stories, which corresponded to the piety of the society in which he lived, and allowed him to continue to experiment and search for new approaches […]...
23. Description of the painting by Claude Monet “Boulevard des Capucines in Paris”Artist Monet often portrayed this part of the street. It is often depicted on the canvas is this boulevard, but, truth, at different times of the year and even at different times of the day. And because these pictures have value. In general, this is a new style, a new one then, now known to […]...
24. Description of the painting by Camille Pissarro “Opera Travel in Paris”Camille Pissarro devoted a lot of time to working on his canvases and was deservedly considered the patriarch of French impressionism. And the main theme of his work is Paris. The Creator did not set himself the goal of conveying the external image of the city. Rather, he wrote feelings and emotions. The picture “Opera […]...
25. Description of the painting by Jules Bastien-Lepage “Country Love”French artist Jules Bastien-Lepage – the brightest representative of naturalism. Being himself a native of the Lothing peasants, most often in his paintings depicted a village life. In his youth, Bastien-Lepage went through the German-French war and returned home with a severe wound. Despite the disease that consumed him (the artist died of cancer at […]...
26. Description of the painting by Konstantin Korovin “Paris. Capuchin Boulevard “Oh, who just did not put his hands to the image of this most noisy place in Paris – Boulevard des Capucines. The greatest lovers of this place are the French impressionists, such as Monet, Manet, Degas and others. They wrote this boulevard at different times of the year and from different angles. And it […]...
27. Description of the painting by Konstantin Korovin “Paris Cafe”Before us are several sketches of the artist, made in the 1890s under the impression of a trip to France. The principles of one of the brightest modernist trends, impressionism, which flourished in the last third of the nineteenth century, fully embodied in these paintings. Note that Korovin depicts a cafe in the morning. There […]...
28. Description of the painting by Ilya Repin “Paris Cafe”The truly Russian artist I. Ye. Repin shows us his vision of French life on the canvas of 1875 “The Paris Cafe”. Two years earlier, he received from the Academy the right to travel abroad to further study the craft of painting. Upon arrival in the capital of France, Repin was not impressed with the […]...
29. Description of the painting by David Burliuk “Portrait of the Futurist Songbird Vasily Kamensky”The painting titled “Portrait of the futurist Vasily Kamensky’s songwriter” was painted by Burliuk in 1916. She treats it as a work of art in the style of futurism with some echoes of primitivism and fauvism. This picture does not carry the similarity of photographic accuracy with the real Vasily Kamensky. Burliuk portrayed him as […]...
30. Description of the painting by Gustav Klimt “Love”From the beginning of the 90s a new period began in the work of Gustav Klimt. At this time, the artist felt a keen desire to go beyond the academic traditions, despite his popularity in the artistic circles of the Viennese society. In 1895, Klimt painted the picture “Love.” It is one of the works […]...
31. Description of the painting by Jan Vermeer “Love Letter”After the death of Jan Vermeer, his paintings were highly appreciated. Despite the fact that during his lifetime he was known, he was known as an expert in art, he died in poverty and debt. His wife was forced to abandon the inheritance – it helped pay off with creditors. The artist has been forgotten. […]...
32. Description of the painting by Egon Schiele “Love”Most of the paintings belonging to the brush of Egon Schiele are dramatic and gloomy. The artist died at the age of 28, but the death shroud covered him long before his death. The painting “Love” was written in a glamorous-mythical style peculiar to the artist, which he adopted from another famous Austrian painter Gustav […]...
33. Description of the painting by Mikhail Vrubel “The Court of Paris”Mikhail Vrubel is one of those Russian artists who became the father of Russian modern. It is the elements of modernity that the master used to create the unique masterpiece “Judgment of Paris”. Vrubel used more precise lines, ornaments that have a hidden and deep meaning, and calligraphy was added to this technique. Vrubel’s picture […]...
34. Description of the painting by Peter Rubens “Judgment of Paris”Rubens wrote on this popular subject of ancient times a number of magnificent paintings. Why was he attracted by this topic? The artist liked that it is possible to depict nude female bodies on the grand background of a magnificent landscape. We see Paris. He wears a traditional shepherd outfit. He very carefully considers the […]...
35. Description of the painting by Camille Pissarro “Boulevard of Montmartre in Paris”Impressionist artist, Pissarro, gave a lot of effort to art. He portrayed nature and the world around simple and alive. For him, the impressions of what he saw were important, which made the artist paint the same landscape several times. He depicted the terrain at different times of the day and was eager to convey […]...
36. Description of the painting by Peter Rubens painting “Garden of Love”Cloth by Rubens “Garden of Love”, or as it is also called the “Garden of Lovers”, is often interpreted as a description of a certain period of the artist’s life, or rather, the time after his second marriage. Perhaps this is so. Especially if you consider that the picture was painted by Rubens for the […]...
37. Description of the painting by Karl Bryullov “Bathsheba”Once, during the life of King David, he walked on the roof of his palace at sunset, and saw a young girl bathing at the spring, who seemed very beautiful to him. Sensing a passion for her, the king, who did not know of any refusal, sent his own servants to her, and they brought […]...
38. Description of the painting by Peter Rubens “Bathsheba at the Fountain”Peter Paul Rubens is a famous Dutch artist who lived in the years 1577-1640. He painted pictures on a variety of topics, but those that are written in biblical scenes were his best pieces. The painting “Bathsheba at the Fountain” is written based on biblical stories. Of course, people far from the history and the […]...
39. Description of the painting by Caspar David Friedrich “Monk by the Sea”Frederick always adhered to religious themes – this topic was most interesting and close to him. “Monk by the Sea” – a picture that, along with another (“Abbey in the Oak Forest”), brought him success. It depicts a calm dark sea. The lambs of the waves run along it, the surf rustles against the shore. […]...
40. Description of the painting by Caspar David Friedrich “Sunset”Works depicting the landscapes of Friedrich are unclear, often full of uneasy symbolism, almost always mystical and realized by arguments of contemplation of the depths of the planet. The individual in his works is not an arbitrary hero. The development of creations of general philosophical significance for Frederick is the path to lightness and freedom. […]...